Ancient Canals in North America
Listed are a number of historical reports of ancient canals in North America. Photo of a large canal in Missouri
The great ditch extending from a point below Cape Girardeau, Mo., to the headwaters of the White and St. Francis rivers was excavated in prehistoric days and was old when Indian legend first refers to it. Whether the object was to use this great canal for purposes of navigation or simply for drainage can never be known. The ancient inhabitants, whether Mobolians or Peruvians, may have known the rich valley of the Nile, of the artificial ponds or lakes and canals used at the time to regulate its high waters and resorted to the same plan here for controlling the mighty Mississippi. One of the largest canals in North America may have been invilvedd in the copper trade www.nephilimgiants.net : Babylonian Amorite's Canals and Dolmans Described Along the Rock River in Illinois
History of Greenup County, Kentucky 1951
At Springfield, there is a large enclosure with walls plainly discernible, and it is said to have been an Indian town having an underground opening to the Ohio River.
